ADDITIONS TO TiTK AVI-FAUNA op thk COUNTY of 

 CUMBERLAND. 



By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.8., Oini'tlKilogist. 



Ill the " Proceedings of tiie Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales " in Decemher, 1.S8S,' I recorded " A List of the Birds 

 found in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales." It was 

 a bare list of the species, without comment of any kind. Nearly 

 a decade later in the " Handbook of Sydney and the County of 

 Cumberland, for the use of the Members of the Australian Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science," I gave a second list of 

 "The Birds of the County of Cumberland." In this list the 

 species appeared under their respective orders and families, with 

 brief notes as to their haunts, and localities where they could be 

 found in the County. Of those species now added several were 

 included in the first list, but omitted in the second. Two of them 

 now restored Edoli'iHoma fe}iiiirostre and Mimut caxtaneo- 

 thora.i' have since been found breeding, the former, regularly 

 visiting and remaining to breed in the County. By far, however,, 

 the greater number of the additions are due to climatic influences,, 

 principally caused by periods of excessive drought inland, and to a 

 less extent by coastal gales. Some of the additions are founded on 

 donations made to tiie Trustees of the Australian Museum. 

 Among the donor.s, not only of additions to the avi-fauna of the 

 County, but of many rare species, may be especially mentioned, 

 Mr. Heni-y Newcoml3e of Randwick. He has also been a frecjuent 

 contributor to the Museum collections for upwards of a quarter 

 of a century. Several of the species included in the present 

 list, have been previously recorded at the time when they 

 were obtained, either in the " Proceedings of the Linnean Societ}' 

 of New South Wales," or the "Records of the Austi'alinn 

 Museum." 



1 North- Prof. Liini. Sue. N. S. Wales, (2), iii., 188S, p. 1773. 



2 Nortli— Haiidl.k. Xwiw Assoc. Adv. Sci., Sydney, 1S98, p. 68. 



